Best honey cake recipe

A delicious Honey Cake with honey buttercream.

Make this sweet honey cake recipe in under an hour for a simple dessert that’s sweet, moist, and incredibly easy to create!

Medovik is a traditional 8 layer honey cake from Russia, and truly one of a kind. It is soft, moist, with lots of caramely-nutty flavour, and just enough tang from the sour cream to beautifully balance out all that honey goodness.

Soft honey layers baked to golden perfection sandwich a slightly tangy sour cream frosting. This cake is sheer heaven in every bite.

This naturally sweetened Honey Cake is an incredibly tender, melt-in-your-mouth dessert recipe you'll love. It's easy to make in a round cake pan and is irresistibly moist and delicious, making it perfect for any occasion... anytime!

No spices, no distraction, just a simple, moist, delicious honey cake for Rosh Hashanah, or any time of year. Adapted from Marcy Goldman’s A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking. This recipe makes a lot of cake. You can use either three 9-by-5-inch loaf pans, one 9-by-13-inch baking pan, or any equivalent-sized pans.

This Medovik cake is eight layers of honey goodness with creamy filling in between and adorned with caramel flames.

Darkly appealing but soft, moist and spiced inside this cake smells wonderful baking and tastes even better with a cup of tea or coffee. Ashkenazi Jews bake Lekach or honey cake during Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashanah which falls from the 29th of September to the 1st of October this year. The sweetness from the honey is said to symbolise having a sweet year ahead. It is also best baked 3 or so days ahead of time. I called her Esther.

This Russian honey cake recipe, aka medovik, features beautiful layers of cake alternated with a super sweet honey and dulce de leche cake cream. YUM!

My moist and sweet honey cake is an easy dessert you can make for any occasion. With glistening honey on top and a fluffy, moist crumb, it’s sure to impress! Watch the video below to see how I make it in my kitchen!